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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Panus tahitensis. Panus tahitensis


Article: Massee, G.E. (1899) [1898]. The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349 Wellington:.
Description: Pileus reniform, plano-convex, quite glabrous, margin quite entire, incurved, base depressed, whitish, then tan-colour, coriaceous and tough, 6-7 cm. broad; gills not decurrent, firm, crowded, ochraceous-white, then becoming brownish; spores elliptical, hyaline, smooth, 6-7 µ long; stem distinctly lateral, very short, scarcely 2 mm. long.
Habitat: On rotten trunks, in woods.
Distribution: Dannevirke, New Zealand. Island of Tahiti.